if that is helpful to you, hopefully it is, there you go. thanks for were watching, everyone, now over to shepard smith. >>shepard: have a great weekend. the news begins anew on "studio b." the hurricane sandy is headed for the northeast. it is looking bad. it left two dozen dead in the caribbean, forecasters say it could hit the winter storm that is out there bringing in historic weather nightmare. never have we seen anything like it around here. details are coming up. the unthinkable horror that cigaretted -- that greeted us in new york city. a million comes home, taking one kid out, comes them her two young children stabbed to death in the bathroom. police say their nanny killed them before she tried to kill herself. a live report coming. new polls show the presidential nominees are now neck and neck and even more battle ground

states are neck and neck all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. this is "studio b." first from fox at 3:00 in new york city, the super storm headed for the united states could turn into a weather phenomenon, tens of millions of people live in the national hurricanest tracking zone. in fact, the act number is some 66 million people. forecasters say there is quit a bit uncertainty on the path. we are told sandy could target florida, georgia, new york, new jersey, connecticut and new england. the hurricane has caused death and destruction across the caribbean. right now it is battering the bahamas and whip up surf on the east coast of florida. forecasters say it will come ashore along the eastern seaboard. right now there is no way to know where. here are the best probabilities: it could make a beeline for new york city. it is on collision course with a snowstorm coming from the west

and a blast of fridge it air from the north, a potential for the weekend that is called frankenstorm created a perfect storm in 1991 and that went off the coast of new england became the subject of a book and a movie by same name of the people around here remember it like it was yesterday. they say this will be worse. there will be heavy rain. high winds. flooding. coastal subjects. maybe in some areas, snow. wide-spread power outages are possible. coverage now from rick at the weather center. phil keating is live in fort lauderdale where it is wet and windy. right, fill? phil: hurricane sandy is deliveringtons and tons of sand all night long. all four lanes of a1a of the highway have been closed all day. you can see the crews scooping up the sand. overnight it was much worse as the outer bands of the hurricane

ripped south florida pushing a surge, wind, rain, and sand all across all four lanes as the big clean up job that continues throughout the afternoon. there has been a lot wind. a lost rain. but mostly subsiding as the eye of the hurricane now far enough north of south florida and the weather will improve from south florida to north florida there was minor damage. we caught a boat in the bay battered and beaten and half sunk. that is one less watercraft that will be used the next time the weather improves. we have seen some sunshine now but the cleanup does continue and it is headed this way but it is far away from jacksonville, the eye, at 200 miles. florida could have seen the worst it will get. now it is marching toward virginia, maryland, and where

you are. >>shepard: the last thing we need to think is it didn't do anything in florida, because it didn't hit. but it hit some islands and the death toll is rising. phil: yes. it is important for people to understand in florida you have seen the pictures, thinking a lot of wind and rain and sand on the street, not too much damage. florida was lucky. it was 250 miles west of the eye. it was a hurricane in the ocean but long the coast of florida it was a tropical storm affect. now the path of the hurricane, jamaica, cuba and the bahamas the death toll has been going up all day long and now 34 lives lost and in cuba the most devastating hurricane to impact the nation in seven years. >>shepard: thank you, phil. now, our chief meteorologist who has been working on the track of

the hurricane. it is between florida and new york. rick: maybe rhode island and one our models has been shifting to the east. this is the storm right new, looking disorganized. do not be fooled. people think that does not look like a strong hurricane. this will not be a general hurricane. it will not be a hurricane even a tropical storm when it lands. it will be a different storm much more typical a northeaster but with all of the tropical moisture that is in that hurricane. it will be very heavy rain fall, much more rain than you he in a general nor'easter and we will see a much bigger expanding wind field. now, the storm surge matters because fur on the right side, it will be bad. the way this land goes here,

this "l" if the center goes across south jersey, that would pummel a ton of water here that it will get caught. a lot the poaches, the jersey shore, interior sections of connecticut and long island, they will have a world of hurt. and we will see an offshore surge here but the waves will be tremendous. the wind will be tremendous. this european model has been consistent showing it around delmarva and if that happens it is monday morning. the other model we like has been pretty consistent for the last day, around long island, and moved off to the east around martha's vineyard and the coastal areas of maine and massachusetts are under the gun. everyone is going to get a lot

of rain and win. the benches will take a beating like they have not taken in a long time and millions will be without power when this is done. for a long-term. >>shepard: the 91 storm cut new channels on alongside and changed everything. rick: this will be similar. >>shepard: horror last night in new york city and we woke up to unthinkable. a mother walks to the manhattan apartment and it was dark. the nanny was supposed to be there with the two and six-year-old but the lights were off. she went down and asked the doorman, did they leave. she went back upstairs, the house was dark and she walked in the bath, turned on light and her to children were in the bathtub covered in stab wounded and blowing -- bleeding to death. the mother has self inflicted wounded. she slit her throat. the two and six-year-old did not

survive. the nanny, the suspect, in the murders now in police custody in critical condition. according to the new york city police chief the mother left her apartment on the upper west side to take the three-year-old to a swimming lesson and she left the to with the others with the nanny. the cops say the father was just getting back from a business trip and he is an executive with cnbc and runs the digital outlet. he was met at the airport to tell him his children were dead. the neighbors talk of hearing a blood curdling scream as the mom was stand there and the superintendent standing out in the hall outside their room crying and saying the little ones are dead. this city is violently shaken. social media is all abuzz. moms and dads and brothers and sisters on the upper west side are a mess. jonathan hunt has the news like on the upper west side.

jonathan, unthinkable. >>jonathan: it is impossible to imagine the pain and grief the family are going through right now. when the mother returned to the apartment building behind me yesterday early evening she first went to the apartment, found it dark and immediately want back down and talked to the doorman and asked if he had said the nanny and children. she returned to the apartment, continued the lights on, walked this to the bathroom, and found her two-year-old, leo, and six-year-old, with multiple stab wounds. they were according to the police still alive but they died on way to the hospital. one of the worst horrors is when she found the nanny the nanny had already tried to cut her own throat and was in the process in front of the mother trying to slash her own wrists, a simply

unimaginable scene. >>shepard: it looks as if the family and the nanny and her family were very, very close. >>jonathan: they were. the nanny was 50 years old, originally from the dominican republic. police say they have not found anything in her background or her relationship which would suggest any problems. the family wrote on a blog they keep they had visited the dominican republic to visit her family and talked about what a wonderful family they are. everyone is frying to make sense of this. a makeshift memorial of flowers, and a teddy bear and small pumpkins placed outside of this apartment building. i also want to tell you about a neighbor that we spoke to today, clear lot friedman the woman who made the 9-1-1 call described the moment she first heard the

mother screaming. >> i came down in the elevator and heard the screaming which was amazing kind of scream i'm never heard before and it was obviously a primal scream. she was screaming from someplace else, it was almost not a human sound and she was screaming from someplace else. i was -- that sound is not leaving my head. i didn't sleep really good, either. >>jonathan: on the upper west side of manhattan which is very much a family neighborhood, there are innumerable parents pushing strollers along the street as the kids get out of school, very few parents will sleep very well tonight. they all have the family in their thoughts. >>shepard: i imagine, jonathan. the family is very active in social media and the mom just three hours before this happened, she posted online how

her little boy was putting sentences together and how cute he was and how he said, yes, and little things about little lives and to think about coming home to that it is unbelievable. an important new report is out on the economy that, one number, really, that shows how fast the country and economy is growing with the details and what they mean for the election coming up next. as militants attack the consulate in benghazi, the c.i.a. would not san help. they give reasons for that. but they times, officials told the operatives in the region to "stand down" because they could not send help. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso.

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>>shepard: the economy is the most important factor on the minds of the voters in the race for the white house. the nominees are now neck and

neck in key western swing states, tied in colorado. the same poll finds the president is barely leading governor romney in nevada, 50 percent to 47 percent. the "wall street the "wall stre" parent company of this network. the numbers show that both nominees still have a potential path to victory in the electoral college. now, chris wallace, hello, how is it looking? >>chris: close. there has been movement over the last three weeks toward romney at expense of obama but not so much that he has been able to put daylight between them. it is looking close nationally. also, especially close in the key swing states. >>shepard: the last poll, and you may have seen a more recent one, the one from ohio showed a four-point lead for obama and another the day before of five points. if you are mitt romney how do you get to the presidency without ohio?

>>chris: you can but as someone said you wouldn't want to. it is hard. there are 18 electoral votes and you is to win a combination of smaller states to make up for that. he has to win ohio. this hasn't been a republican who has beverlyen elected without winning ohio. it is very, very close. they think they are making gains in the central part of the state and the northern part of state but especially in their base in sworn and southeast ohio. look, this is so close it will be a question of ground game of turn out. can you get more of your supporters to the polls? >>shepard: the republicans are very confident in their ground game but the numbers are against them. the president has more field offices, three times as many across that state. they have been working there since the last election. >>chris: i was talking to a top field operator, organizer, for the romney campaign just today and he said if we wanted

more headquarters in ohio we could have had them but we don't think that is the way to do this. there was a survey taken how many contacts have you had from each campaign and as many, and it is a ridiculous number, if you lived in ohio you would be going crazy from the phone calls but both sides have had an equal number of contacts. just to show you how sophisticated this is, romney camp said they can lock at their side and the other side, high propensity versus low propensity voter who votes in zero or one of the last elections and high proceed pens it is three or four. so they want to get the low propensity voters out and the high propensity voters will get out anyway, so that shows you

they are looking for specific kind of voters. >>shepard: all right, chris, we will try to get a grip on things on sunday with you. the federal agency is looking at new rules to stop unwanted text messages. but groups are trying to fight the rules saying they infringe on free speech. that is next. and we watching the two models of the big storm, one puts it in new jersey and the other north of new york city, in new england. if it comes in south of new york city, that is the hudson river. and new york city, you better be ready for some severe flooding. [ female announcer ] today, jason is here

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>>shepard: the presidential race is tied up nationwide but the swing states will decide it. both campaigns playing up news of growth in the economy. the president's camp saying it shows we are on the right track. governor romney says it and too little too late. according to the commerce department the economy grew at 2 percent rate the last few months up .7 percent, but analysts say not enough to boost hiring. the president is acknowledging more work needs to be done but claiming growth will slow under governor romney's plan. the president says mitt romney has given us nothing but a drastic plan that independent economists say will fail to create jobs and low g.d.p. growth by an average of percent. governor romney responded this afternoon giving what the campaign billed as a "major economic speech" in the swing state of iowa. >> where are the jobs? where are the nine million more jobs president obama promised the stimulus would have created by now?

they are in china. mexico. canada. in countries that have made themselves more attractive for entrepreneurs and business and investment as his policies have made it less attractive. >>shepard: government holds an education on economic issues with 51 percent trust him more to handle the economy and 44 percent trust president obama more. and now, live from washington, dc, with the details. what drove the growth? >>guest: housing and consumers and a jump in government spending, 10 percent increase in the amount the federal government put in spending with personal consumption, the amount u.s. consumers buy, that increased 2 percent, and the federal government was up nearly 10 percent, and the non-dense was 3 percent.

>>shepard: how did the markets react? >>guest: the g.d.p. report was better than was expected but there is a slow economic recovery. the dow began up and now trading flat through the afternoon but up now. investors are focused on company reports on how much money they are making. the earning season has been lackluster and analysts say apple's disappointing earnings is weighing things down, and too weak to generate the growth needed to reduce unemployment and bring millions of americans who want a job back to work. >>shepard: thank you. the fed taking a step to cracking down on spam text. laws ban unsolicited text but that has not done much to prevent spam. now the fcc reports they are reviewing a petition that seeks to ban internet to phone text messaging which experts consider

a form of auto dialing. they talking about when you get on the computer and you send text to a lot of people only their phones. >>guest: which is not that common but it is the future. it will be happening a lot more frequently. >>shepard: i get weird stuff like that. >>guest: you get a little but not much. it is remarkably easy to do. there are dozens of websites right now that you go to them, plug a couple of e-mail addresses or text message addresses in there and it is usually a phone number. what is going on, a couple of companies are using this for politics right new. >>shepard: we signed up for it when we go to their campaign things. you get it from both sides. >>guest: if that is something you requested that is all right, maybe. there are arguments open both sides but when it broadens to a larger thing and it is a big company sending you information or something you do not want,

viagra, that is invasive. and another thought: what if it is you that is sending the spam messages. at what point does regulation become overpowering? >>shepard: if i do it, someone has taken over my body. there is no chance of that. >>guest: you have a fantasy football league and 50 friends and their phone numbers and you plug into them. >>shepard: group texting. >>guest: is that illegal all of a sudden? >>shepard: i thought if it was just if it came from the desk top. >>guest: they are looking at it, and asking for requests on who thinks what. >>shepard: what they are talking about is not phone number to phone number, but internet connection to phone texting. >>guest: but i can see where a future where that is integral to fantasy football where it is essential to me communicating with my friends on facebook. there are a lot of ways it could be the natural evolution of text messaging and when the fcc says

you cannot do that without being registered. there are a lot of free speech concerns. for example, we are talking about fantasy football league, you have a right to talk to your buddies. >>shepard: only if i'm winning. >>guest: which of course you are. >>shepard: if we can beat the hogs if little rock i will be the happiest. for a week. >>guest: i am rooting for the patriots. >>shepard: hopefully we are not going to get rained out. bunga-bunga sex pairs will never be the at the same time i hear they are different in prison. the party is over for are m bunga-bunga, the foam prime -- e former prime minister has been convicted to four years in prison on tax fraud. in italy they have two levels of appeal. this is the first level.

he faces charges, too, of having sex with "ruby, the heart stealer" when she was underage and he says it doesn't happen. last week, he claimed that the bunga-bunga parties were not sex parties, no, no, no, discussions about sports, politics, and gossip. high brow discussions of goes pitch. okay. there is almost time and it is almost up for the nominee to make their case to the voters and the poll shows it is anyone's race. what are the campaign last minute strategies in the race to the 270 electoral votes. it does not matter what they are nationwide. only the swing states matter. later, new word that c.i.a. decided it could not send backup to our consulate in benghazi not once but three times and the against secretary said we didn't know the details of what was going on, on the ground. there is a lot of second-guessing of the american military.

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the numbers show president obama has a lead, but narrow. both campaigns now focusing on their ground games. governor romney has closed an early gap on that front. the washington post/abc news poll finds 22 percent of likely voter says obama has contacted them personally, and 23 percent say they have heard from the romney campaign. ed henry is joining us from the white house and carl cameron is on the road in ohio. what is the mood? >>carl: ohio and the battleground states are lit up and energized on both sides, and both campaigns doing everything they can to get people to knock on doors, make phone calls, canvas parking lots, anything they can to get people to take part in the early voting and absentee balloting. both average that of the six major battleground states, president obama probably has an advantage here in terms of early voting and absentee voting but

mitt romney has an advantage in florida and an advantage in colorado and, perhaps, virginia, but obama has an advantage in nevada so they trade the states back-and-forth in an exercise to get people to the polls because in the natural polls tied at 47 percent, literally, for months and with the battleground states seesawing back and forth with a similar and tight margin every vote and getting them to the ballot box will matter. >>shepard: the president's camp is pointing to the area along the bodier with michigan and ohio where they say that is where they work in jobs and they have not forgotten mitt romney's statements and that is why the president things they will win ohio and history tells us they will win the white house. >>carl: because history tells us no republican has won the white house without ohio the you know that. the bottom line it is like a midwestern firewall in the eyes of the campaign folks in chicago. they believe and they will say

the math is the math. the national polls tilt in romney's favor but this is not a race to see who gets the most votes nationally. it is a state by state race, the white house and the obama camp believes if they carry a state like ohio they will win. the biggest danger is not a romney bit of momentum but the fact that female voters are pulling back from the president in state after state including the fox poll where in virginia the president had a double doing it -- digit lead and now it is down to just six points. >>shepard: democrats will say without the gender gap a democrat cannot win. >>reporter: the romney catch is pleased but they recognize they have work with the women's

vote but they happy with the swing vote independent vote and in state after state romney has a significant lead and in some cases it is double digit with independent voters. to show you how intense the ground game sprint for grass roots votes is, ohio has a population in excess of ten million. by the end of the week romney claims they will have contacted six million people in the state belter than half the population. by contact, they are referring to phone calls with live people calls or knocks on doors. extraordinary numbers and an illustration of them having worked at it for the last two months intensely and the obama campaign spent a lot of money and a lot time on infrastructure early in the summer getting ready for this and they trying to add the people here. thank you both, i hope you have rest on wednesday. i bet we will still count. >> go rebels, beat arkansas. thank you, ed. fox can now confirm the c.i.a.

denies multiple requests for backup for certain reasons as americans on the ground in libya balloted their militant attackers. according to sources on the ground c.i.a. officials toll the operators to "stand down" when the americans called for support. but they didn't. the attack left four americans dead including the ambassador to libya, chris stevens. early today the father of a former navy seal killed in the attack spoke with megyn on her program. he had strong words for the white house. >> the facts came out that in real time the white house a minute after the first bullet was fired, they watched my son and denied his threes for help. my son violated his orders in order to protect the likes of at least 30 people. he risked his life to be a hero. i wish that the leadership in the white house had that same

level of moral courage that my son displayed. >>shepard: the words of a grieving party. panetta said the pentagon did not have a clear enough picket of what was happening on the ground in benghazi to send help. jennifer is with the news at the pentagon. this idea that the people would be second-guessing the military in the middle of this as the investigation is underway... >> what we have learned from sources present in benghazi during the attack three things. there were, was unusually a help from the c.i.a. annex a mile from the consulate stating at 9:40 p.m. they asked their c.i.a. chain of command in order to send a quick rescue team over to the consulate when they got the

initial firing taking place. they were told to stand down. not once but twice at 9:40 and at 10:01 p.m. at that points tyrone woods, a former navy seal at the annexes he and a small team approximately six members of a rescue team defied orders and made their way to the consulate. some were on foot they tried to help at that point they rescued those who were it will alive and they could not fine the ambassador. they took smith's body and made their way back to the c.i.a. annex at 12:00 p.m. mid-united and put out a third request for military backup, some sort of help because they were starting to take fire at the annex. nothing came. they went to the roof, and one

was in tripoli en route to the airport in benghazi with a second rescue team. they got delayed. they were killed by a mortar at 4:00 a.m., and some of the folks who were on the ground at the time say they felt that help could have been sent and that their answers or calls for help were not responded to. >>shepard: thank you from the pentagon. a fox news special report will air this weekend on the consulate attacks. bret baier and reporters greg palkot and ed henry will break down the details of the attack and the response. it will air at 1:00 o'clock eastern tomorrow and at 3:00 and 10:00 on sunday again all times eastern. right here on fox news. >> new reports suggesting iranian scientists may have a lot of progress on their nuclear program recently, made a lot of progress. the latest on their efforts to make atomic fuel next.

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force is tale tracking the ballistic missiles using a very high-tech radar. these five missiles were all fired simultaneously from the air, the sea, and the ground to short range missiles, a medium-range and two cruise missiles and knock downed four out of five. >> i estimate 90 percent we are there. you have to get the last ten percent because if you don't someone, something catastrophic could well happen. this gives me a good level of confidence someone who has been follow this for 30 years that we are closer than ever to having not a perfect solution but one that is effective. >>trace: they only really shot down three of the five and fully engaged the 4th and decided not to shoot it down to reuse it so they might have saves us a few bucks. >>shepard: he mentioned 30

years and this program has come a long way in 30 years. trace it has they started it under ronald reagan in the 1980's with the goal to stock the intercontinental ballistic missiles and now it has changed. yesterday's test was a simultaneous defense of five different threats and experts say in today's world the tests are you new normal. >> this is an area where despite all the different cut bags -- backs, this is an area of investment. if north korea and the iranian, if they develop systems they will use them. so we will be better off with this. >>trace: all told we are fired off sunday missile over the years and knocked down 56 of the 71. >>shepard: thank you trace. the drill comes as a new report

indicates iran has basically finished work on a nuclear site a bunker buried deep in a mountain where most our bombs could never reach. that is according to the reporting of "new york times" today. they indicate that intelligence officials say iran has raced ahead with efforts to build a nuclear weapon as the united states and israel vow to keep this from happening. iran insists any want only nuclear fuel a claim western nations do thought by. now we have the former new york state homeland security director who has served as a nuclear notification officer for the state and he currently is a managing partner for red land strategy specializing in homeland security issues. >>guest: two questions: the intelligence that coming out, we know they were this far forward? what is the effect of the sanctions? can we rely on the strategy we are using to take down this

program? that is the big question. >>shepard: who knows if we could shoot it down? it doesn't sound like we can get to it. if our recent intelligence fairs are any indication, who would even buy that we are right about any of it? >> what do we do if we can fought rely on the intelligence coming from the isolated society? what do we do with military action and timelines this the -- the sanctions only work with guidelines. we are only using a stick with iran and i remind myself that the iranian population has more than a majority under 30 years old and not everyone has the same leadership perspective. the question is, we have seen it in the past, we can go in certain elements of society and encourage them to be pro democracy, and pro partnership and step away from this brinksmanship. >>shepard: we have learned the

iranian population is largely pro when ways and pro western projects and now with the sanctions they cannot see their families and their cities are falling apart and they are getting angry. >>guest: at us. and iran has a history when we put the sanctions in place they speed up the programs. >>shepard: back up in history in my lifetime the last 50 or so years. whichings 10s worked? >>guest: not the ones that i can thinking. >>shepard: i can't find any. you could say, well, cuba. cuba does not have doors or glass. nothing has changed. i cannot find a spot where sanctions worked. but we cannot blow it up. what do we do? >>guest: we are aligned with israel, but here is the real challenge: if we go if there and we were to make iran the victim, that is a big problem. ÷

>>shepard: perfect is hard to find but if sandy is the perfect storm that many predict it could slam directly into the most densely populated area of our country, more than 60 million people could be affected. the ating director of the national weather service joins us. >>guest: great to be here. >>shepard: we don't know where it will hit. we kind know where. but if it comes south of the hudson riffs we got trouble. >>guest: this storm could bring major impacts to the east coast from north carolina through maine. the geographic area is extensive.

>>shepard: if you are in philadelphia or boston or new york, what are you supposed to do? >>guest: philadelphia, boston, new york, this weekend is the time to prepare. monday morning is when the storm will be off north carolina coast and headed for their way. be prepared. >>shepard: i wonder about the people living in the coastal areas, you hear about the ruggedness of those in maine and in new england and long island. if people who is not been through this, will not understand how bad it can be and could it is in the houses on the beach and regret it. >>guest: well, one of the concerns we always forget with a hurricane is the potential for inland flooding. more fatalities occur than any other impact or potential catastrophe from a hurricane. so, be prepared for the flooding that is associated with the storm. >>shepard: check with the local emergency managers. all theay west to ohio. unbelievable.

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